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For six seasons between 1999 – 2007, The Sopranos was one of the most exciting dramas on television (cable or otherwise) and it also boasted some of the best music of any series. Creator David Chase was the mastermind behind the show, and he worked on the music with Steven Van Zandt, who played the role of Silvio Dante on the show.

Van Zandt brought a number of unlikely songs to the show, including The Rolling Stones’ “Thru And Thru” (sung by Keith Richards, not Mick Jagger), The Kinks’ “Living On A Thin Line” (sung by Dave, not Ray, Davies), Them’s “Mystic Eyes” and Otis Redding’s “My Lover’s Prayer” and The Pretenders’ “Space Invaders” to name a few.

The Chase/Van Zandt relationship was a pretty simpatico one through all of those seasons. Until the last scene of the final episode; Van Zandt and Chase famously disagreed on the choice to end the series with Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

“We must have had three weeks fo wresting over that one,” Van Zandt tells CBS Local. “I begged him. I begged him! I said, ‘After all this fantastic stuff you used over the years, this is gonna be the last thing that hear? I gave him some suggestions that I thought would be better. In the end he said, ‘This is what the character would do.'”

While he maintains that other songs may have been cooler (in his mind), he concedes that Chase’s decision to stick with Journey was true to the character. “I’m talkin’ to the guy who invented the character. I don’t have much to argue about! There was really no argument… but that didn’t stop me. That’s the kind of relationship we have.”